Carey Lovelace has had over fifty productions of her works including at 59E59 Theaters, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Bay Street Theatre, the Samuel French One-Act Festival (2006 finalist), and the BMI Music Theatre Workshop. Her 16-scene dark comedy Couple Counseling recently played to sold-out houses at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It received its world premiere at the REDCAT Theatre in the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and was produced in 2008 by the Manhattan Rep Theatre. She has been a finalist, semi-finalist, and won honorable mentions in numerous competitions, including winning the Maxim Mazundar One-Act Play Competition. At BMI, she is a member of the Librettists Workshop and audited the Lehman Engels Music Theatre Workshop; she is a member of the Actors Studio P/D Workshop. For many years, she participated in Ensemble Studio Theatre's Citylab, under the direction of the late Curt Dempster. She is a co-principal in the theatre company Loose Change Productions. She is also an art journalist and served as co-president of the International Association of Art Critics. She has written about the art world for over a decade and a half and has curated exhibitions at the Bronx Museum, The Drawing Center in New York and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
"...disarming and refreshing in equal measure." - The London Sunday Times
" A New York comedy that pulls no punches when it comes to therapy and matters of the heart...my bet is Couples Counseling will enjoy a long
and happy future... " - Edinburgh Evening News
"... An entertaining black comedy of errors.. this comedic love triangle between a neurotic man, his unfulfilled wife, and their ineffectual marriage
guidance counsellor Dr Bob, is subtly very amusing..." - The Scotsman
"...unique dialogue... characters are quirky, relatable, and real, and given an exceptional edge due to Lovelace's writing...[the] obtuse love triangle guarantees a play full of hilarious spins and tragic detours, minor idiosyncrasies and major indiscretions, all of which can all too easily be recognized
by any New Yorker who has ever been-or currently is-in love." - Theatre Talk
PLAYS (Selected Performances)
| Couples Counseling (full length) | Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2009); 59E59 Theaters (2009); Manhattan Rep Fall Theatre Festival (2008); World Premiere: REDCAT Theatre, Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA (2004); Staged Reading: Looking Glass Theatre (NYC, 2001); Selections from: Ensemble Studio Theatre (2000) ; O’Connor Theatre Project (Oxford, Miss., 2001) |
First StageLA, honorable mention (2008); Samuel French Festival, finalist (2006) |
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Words Said Backwards |
Monologues and Madness (2008) |
Bay Street Theatre (Sag Harbor, NY) (2007) |
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Staged readings: New Playwrights Series (NJ) (2005); Ensemble Studio Theatre, Atlantic Theatre Company (2005); Early drafts, Ensemble Studio Theatre (2004); (2002) |
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Step |
Ensemble Studio Theatre (2004) |
Strawberry One-Act Festival (finalist, 2003); StageWorks (Kinderhook NY, 2002); Ensemble Studio Theatre (2001) |
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Co-op Murder Mystery (full length) |
Last Frontier (Edward Albee) Theatre Conference (2003) |
Listen to Me |
THAW 24/7 (2003) |
Samuel French Festival (2003) |
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Movie Mad |
SwampKing (2002) |
Samuel French One-Act Festival (2001); Ensemble Studio Theatre (2000); Pulse Ensemble Theatre (2001); O’Connor Theatre Project (2001) |
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September 11, 8:48 a.m. |
Ensemble Studio Theatre (2001) |
What Are You Working on Now? |
O’Connor Theatre Project (2001) |
Tending to Dolly |
Ensemble Studio Theatre (2001) |
When Mom Joined an Ashram |
Ensemble Studio Theatre (2001); O’Connor Theatre Project (2001) |
Naked Ambitions |
Ensemble Studio Theatre (2001) |
Alleyway Theatre (Buffalo, 1999); Atlantic Theatre Lab (NYC, 2001) |
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Ensemble Studio Theatre (2000) |
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Leaping Into Marvelous |
Producer’s Club (NYC, 2000) |
Pop! |
Ensemble Studio Theatre (2000) |
| Tell Me Again You Love Me (***) | Pulse Ensemble Theatre (NYC, 1999); O’Connor Theatre Project (2001) |
** Winner, Maxim Mazundar One-Act Play Competition
*** Honorable Mention, Writer’s Digest Award
IN PROCESS
| Confidence: An Art World Musical (libretto and lyrics) | Developed through the BMI Music Theatre Workshop |
| Welcome to Paradise! (libretto and lyrics; music by Stephen Randoy) | Developed through the BMI Music Theatre Workshop |
| Lift Off | Multi-media solo work |
TRAINING
Actor’s Studio, New School University (MFA) Playwrighting
CityLab, led by the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Curt Dempster (1999-2005)
Playwrighting studies with Curt Dempster, Laura-Maria Censabella, Stuart Spencer, Shirley Lauro, Neal Bell, John Augustine, Romulus Linney, Bruce Whitacre
New York University (MA) Journalism
California Institute of the Arts (BFA) Musical composition
AFFILIATIONS
Lyricist, BMI Lehman-Engel Music Theatre Workshop (auditor)
BMI Librettists Workshop
Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Workshop
Dramatists Guild